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An Archaeological Evaluation at 'Denbet', Mill Road, Hengrave, Suffolk. |
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Norvic Archaeology unpublished report series
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Abstract: |
Norvic Archaeology was commissioned by Jon Birrell to undertake an evaluation by trial trench at 'Denbet', Mill Road, Hengrave, Suffolk. A replacement dwelling has been proposed with a new house footprint which measures c.255m2, within an overall footprint measuring c.0.1ha (Planning Ref:DC/13/0532/FUL). The site is situated in the immediate vicinity of the Fornham Cursus (FAS 004), parts of which are a Scheduled Monument (SF 114). The cursus, formerly ditches and banks that are now visible as cropmarks, stretches for over a mile between Fornham and Hengrave. It would have been a significant Neolithic landscape feature and is interpreted as a processional way dating to 3500 - 3000BC. The archaeological evaluation was undertaken in accordance with a brief issued by the Conservation Team of the Suffolk County Council Archaeology Service on behalf of St Edmundsbury Borough Council (Ref: Rachael Monk 08/11/3013/SCCAS). Two features were revealed at the south-eastern end of the evaluation trench. They comprised of a shallow V-shaped ditch of possible prehistoric date and a post-pit, which it partly truncated. The post-pit contained a post-setting for an upright timber post of c.0.3m diameter. A freshly preserved assemblage of worked flint was collected from the backfill against the former post. These flints include several bladelets along with a blade core fragment consistent with a Mesolithic tradition of microlith production. |
Author: |
G Emery
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Publisher: |
Norvic Archaeology
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Historic England (OASIS Reviewer)
Suffolk HER (OASIS Reviewer)
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Year of Publication: |
2014
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HNV 034: 'Denbet’, Mill Road, Hengrave, Suffolk |
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Suffolk |
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West Suffolk |
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HENGRAVE |
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England |
Grid Reference: 582770, 268720 (Easting, Northing)
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norvicar1-169064 |
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Norvic Archaeology Report No. 43 |
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Spiral Bound
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01 Feb 2018 |